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THE NORTHERN PACIFIC ELECTION.

As We have insisted from the beginning Of
the great struggle between the Northern
Pacific people proper on the one side and
The Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.,
the Oregon TranscontiDental. the Union
Pacific and Wisconsin Central combination
on the other. for supremacy at
the stockholders' meeting, the former,
the old party, won. The latter
secured strong representation in
tho Board Of Directors, but only through
an alliance with Willard, who broke into
the breach at the critical moment with $5,-
O0O, 600 OF Berlin capital. It was through
his influence and the Wisconsin Central al
hance that enabled the opposition to &C.
cure 80 strong a foothold in the directory.
It will be seen that both Messrs. Abbott
ond Colby OF OF the Central are in the
Board. Mr.. Willard voted $50, 900
shares, which shows conclusively
the combine between him and the rest of
the opposition to the old order of things.
Had Elijah Smith been put forward the
result would have been different. He is
not the sort Of man to inspire the conf
dence Of capital or to represent conflicting
interests.
=;
A foreshadowed in our dispatches, Mr..
Harris may be reelected president until
the Cascade division is completed, tunnels
and all. Then. having subserved Mr..
Wright's interests to the limit Of his useful.
ness, he will doubtless retire to give place
TO Vice-President and General Manager
Oakes, who, by every consideration OF ex-
perience, executive ability and familiarity
with the needs OF the road, will succeed
him. Mr.. Harris then be
made chief OF the Executive
Board, and represent the finances of the
concern IN New York, while Mr.. Cakes will
remain at st. Paul and direct the opera
lions Of the road with full power. This is
the thing proper to be done. Mr.. Wizards
vim will again be felt in the Northwest.
Between he and Cakes there is perfect
harmony, and always has been since they
were first associated together in the rail.
way service years ago, in Kansas. in Oregon
and On the Northern Pacific. Under the
new deal vi do not see but that the
Northern Pacific will be . more powerful
factor in the development Of the great
resources Of the Northwest than ever
before.
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sLEEPLESS NIGHTS, made miserable by that
terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for
you. NEWTON BROS
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PURCHASING I

We will pay Soc for choice ranch butter, LIS
pc, cwt. for potatoes, 1.25 per cwt. for turnips,
20 per ner CIV ewt. 'G for 'e Carrots 1go p put SOC SOC ~ per a doz' ior
ranch eggs.
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A Liberal

LONDON. September 16.-J. T. Drummer.
Liberal, has given SIS, 900 for the purpose
of starting a fund to meet the material
aeeds of Ireland and relieve the distress
prevalent in that country.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-17

sH1L0H's COUGH and Consumption cure is
sold BY US on q guarantee. 1t cures Consump-
ton. NEWTON BROS.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

For lame hack, side CT chest. use Shileh's
Porous Plaster. Price Is cents. NEWTON BROS.
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WILL YOU Suffer with Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint? shiloh's Vitalizer Is guaran-
teed to cure you. NEWTON BROS.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-17

THAT HACKING COUGH can oquickly
cured by shiloh's Cure. We eua-antee 1t.
NEW. IN BROS.
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Oats-Montane old O. is. 2.25: Montana rev
oats. 500: Utah oats, 81 90; Eastern oats, ST. Is
C~orIi-Choppad, (none in market)
Bran and horts-Si.75
| Hay-Upland hay, No /. S25 per ton; Timothy,
| S25 per ton.
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BUTTE CITY, Mont, September 16.

RETAIL FEED MARKET Corrected Tor The
MINER by T. R. Qoiman.)
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HIS FAM ILY.

The Colonel was a close student. and al
ways kept a large and well. selected library,
to which he made constant reference and
from which he added to the large md Of
information he possessed on a VARIETY OF
SUBJECTS. He was especially brilliant it
the scope and extent Of his hist r cal in.
formation. In private life he wos a most
genial companion, and was the center IF
every circle he entered. He was a a of
ter on the street and in any company. He
had q passion for p~edestrianism, and up
to the moment when he lay down for the
last time, walked at east six miles a day.
He was suffering with the sickness which
removed him at least two we-ks before his
physical powers gave way. but up to the
last moment OF consciousness maintained
with positive assertion that he was not
really i'll. and would recover in a few days.
He was in his earlier day p~assionately
devoted to sporting in every form, and
owned many fine horses during his life. One
OF his most celebrated contests was a
sixty-mile race between bis horse Billy Bay
and Hank Valiton's Lizard in 1872, run
at Deer Lodge, and won by the latter
horse, upon which large sums were wagered.
During his residence in Deer Lodge h. was
RENDERED POLITICAL PREFERMExr
but would never accept any.
In 1882 he was nominated for Mayor by
the Democratic party in Butte, but also
He was elected a member OF the
Constitutional Convsntiou In 1854, but
easst ssassasdi As1 ~ snA*saAss 81
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two miles and deep prolonged roar, echoing
from the buildincs-tlcn appalling screams
and a vollcy Of pistol shots The smoke
lifted, and the ground appeared covered with
slain-but only for an instant. Two whole
companies of police had been thrown to the
ground of whom one Matthias J. Degan.
was instantly killed, six mortally wounded
and sixty others hurt in various deere
But the police rallied at once and with the
firmness and stead.ce.s of veterans, thov
sprang forward, emptying their revole.s
into the flying crowd rs they went, and 7
lowing their shots with their clubs they
cleared the street in less than three minutes
OF all save the dead and wounded. From
alley. gutter and hallway came deep gro1as
and curses
Is is estimated that twenty of the crowd
were killcd and about $50 wounded An IN
archist named Kistler was killed by the
bomb. Besides Officer Dean, killed outright,
the policemen who died Of their wounds were
J. J. Barrett, George Miller Timothy Tlari-
han, Michael Sheehan, Thomas Eeldia and
Neil Hansen After the dispersion of the
mob came the saddest scenes Of the occasion.
The dead and wounded policemen were rap
idly conveyed to the station, the hitter made
as comfortable as possible and surgeons
called; but not before their wives and near
relatives hurried there for bad news flies
fast The tears Of some, the soas and loud
cries Of others, the gruans, the gashes, the
blood and mangled bodies-all these formed
scene to wiring the hearts Of the pitifuL
Within a few weeks Chicago had contributed
s'uoo for the care Of the wounded police
and the relief Of their families and those of
the dead
The bomb used is said to have been Of the
same pattern used To Kill Tic car of Russia.
and is very well shown ii the initial letter
cut OF this account Il was made Of conpo-
ataon metal cufe fastened together nearly in
the form of sphere with bolt and nut
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THF FATFFlli NIGHT

On tho evening of May about !, eco people
assembled. The managers placed tho wagon
on which the speakers We're to stall a little
way up Desplaines street from the Hay
market, BIZ the mouth of a convenient alley,
and at point where they coC!I have a full
view of the police as the L.tter advanced
from their Despaines Street station Mayor
Carter Harrison was in the crowd and ex-
pressed some surprise at the mildnesS Of tho
first speakers, Spies and Parsons. The crowd
was disappointed too, and was fast melting
away when Ficden took his stand in the
wagon His most intimate English friends
could not have recognized the mid Metho-
dist exhOrtcr and laborer of other da"s. His
frenzied defamation excited what remained
of the crowd, and their applause reacted on
him. 1t was testified at the trial that he
called for immediate action in these words;
Arm, ARM Throttle and kill the law!
Then Inspector Bonfield decided to dsTerse
the meeting Seven companies of policemen,
10 men. In platoons reaching from curb to
curb. marched from their station of Des-
PLANES street north to the wagon. As they
drew near, Fielden IS sworn TO have shouted;
Here come the bloodhounds. you do your
duty and I'll do mine!"
Capt Ward. Of the police, called out:
AIN the name of the people of the state Of
Illinois | command you to peaceably dis
persen
Fielden stepped down from the wagon ex-
claiming:
ave are peaceable,"
1t was claimed by the prosecution that the
word "peaceabe' was the signal agreed on.
Thora WINS dead .iIpuco for rnl.h1f,S ton
seconds, the crowd slowly moving oil and
the police standing firm, when strange
flzzing sound was heard near the mouth Of
tho hiiey end thencca htt!o ball rose in curve
over the wagon and fell between tho second
and third companies of police. There was a
binding flash, an explosion that was heard
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struction If the two sections il the revised
statutes of illinois chapter s., div. ., sections
. and b, which abolish the previous distinc-
ton between principal and accessory, and
provide that any one who, mot being pres
sent, hath advised. encouraged, aided or
Allotted, Shall b. considered as
priacinal and NAV be punished as
such, whether the principal is convicted or
not On tho 18th of September the court
rendered an opinion, which fills twenty-ono
closely printed columns. and Is an exhaustive
exposition of the law, fully confirming the
decision of the court below And 50 the pris-
oners were sentenced to he hanged on the
18th of November. 1857. Another hope re
manned. Gen. Roger a Pryor, Gen Benja-
min F Butler ana lion. Randolph Tucker were
employed as experts in constitutional law
and an appeal made to the supreme court q
the United States, tie chief allegation being
that the accused had MOI been tried by an
"ifnpar, i jury" as T Iaired b. the national
constitution. The revised statutes of Illinois
permit the choice Of a j,rvInan who has
formed an opinion from reading newspaper
accounts of the case. provided he makes oath
that his opinion is not such could not be
overthrown by evidence The question Of
the taking of letter without warrant from
Spies desk VS. also brought up
The supreme court OF the United States
rendered It's dc,-ision ON the "a OF November,
holding, in br.l.. that the jury law OF Illinois
does not contrlveue any provision of the ma
ti.nal constitution, and that the question Us
to whether the state constitution and laws
had been Strictly observed was one for the
state courts aione The court confined itself
very strictly to the case before it, entering
into the general questions raised only so far
as absolutely Necessary. But two points,
therefore, were passed upon in regard to the
amendments. Tho court held that the first
ten amendments limit the powers Of the Fed
eral government, not the powers Of a state
over its citizens; and that the Fourteenth
amendment las not changed the rule in that
respect In all other matters the court holds
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Of Lardeck." central Germany; one of his early
playthings was an Id torture rack with which
the mobiles used to eNtort money from Jews or
regulate" the peasants, and his favorite haunt
in childhood was the edge of II deep chasm
into which the robbor barons used TO throw the
pretty girls OF the village whom they had kid
mapped and of whom they had tired. There he
grew up. and thence he came 10 Amerit a TO teach
the AnarehIstic doctrine, reaching the new world
in 1872 and Chicago year later There he
worked upholsterer for numb r of years
He first showed IN interest III the theories Of
Socialism in 1879 and in 1871 joined hins If to the
Lehr und Wehr-V erein He was attached to The
Arbeiter Zetung in 1880 and succeeded Paul
GrottEau editor in chief In 1891 Livery body
remembers the attachment that sprung up be-
tween him and Miss Nina Van Zandt during Me
trial, and which resulted In their marriage "by
proxy"
Samuel Fielder was born in Todmorden, Ian
eashre, England, in lsi7 He grew up 10 be q
laborer aud Methodist field preacher In lSG5
h came To America and soon located in Chicago,
where he joined the Liberal league in l-sO; there
he met Spies aud Parsons, and thereafter grew
rapidly ipto anarchal views. Save him and Par
sons, all the condemned are Germans
Albert X. Parsons is the only native American
among the condemned men, Born in Alabama
In 1913 and early left an orphan, he was reared
by his brother, who was afterwards the noted
Confederate general, W H. Parsons He served
in the Confederate artillery when but IA years
old but after the war he became Rcpub-
lcan, and In IS72 married woman Suspect d
of having negro blood in her veins, - for which
his brother disowned him. Before this he had
been first printer on The Galveston Tex News
and late editor of The Waco CTex) Spectator,
Because of this marriage he was obliged to leave
Texas, and locating in Chicago he worked in
various printing offices, but after time became
q professional labor aoit WAS Mt one tine
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FIscHrR's Letter.


COOK CoUsTY jan. CHICAGO Nov. I. 1s97.
To Mr.. II J. oglesby, Governor OF the State Of
Illinois:
DEAR SfR-fa am aware that petitions are being
circulated and sit-n"d by the general public ask
Ing You to commute the sentence of death which
was inflicted upon me by q criminal court Of this
state. Apent this action OF a sympai hizing and
well meaning portion Of the people solsranly
declare that 1t has not my sanction. As a man of
hoaor. as a man # conscience and as a man Of
principle, cannot accept mercy. lam not guilty
OF the charge in the indictment-of murder I
am no murderer, and cannot apologize for ac-
ton OF which know / am innocent. And should
ask mercy on account Of my principles, which
/ honestly believe TO be true and nohlef No
an no hypocrite. and have. therefore, no excuses
to offer with regard to being an Anarchist be
cause the experiences Of the past eighteen months
have only strengthened my convictions The
question is Am | responsible for the death Of the
policemen at the Haymarksts and I say no. un-
less you assert that every Aboiitonist could have
s psen ned reSpoas'oie for the deeds of John
History repeats itself. As the powers that be
nave at a4i times thought that they could stern
the progressive tide By exterTninating a fe,r
kicksrs, 80 do tie FIlinl, class Of TO-DAY irnapSns
mat they can Put stop TO the movement of
iaeor emancipation by hanging a few az ia ado
Gates trogFess IN its victorious march has bsd
% on rco1ne macy obstacles which seemed ~
,sall ana many q its apostles have died
we fo1o 81 progress today seem L, be inyincibls
TOO Tut they will BE overcome nevertbeless
Al al times when the condition OF society has
s~n 49, "a sS.ae HtTge portion Of the rsec,rle
ctoiAp4aiiie1 q the existing Injustice the ruIinS
GASES nave denied the truth Of these cornnisin.
Dgt nave sad at TIE discomfort Of the rurfion,
OF the people in question was dpe cnIv H. ~.
rpern'cloas influence" Of MALICIOUS aaits,ors =
To-Day, again, some people assert that IL ID
sgitators" are the cause OF the immense ssss.;s.
faction 81 among the working people
IN, you people who speak thus, can you not Or
VII you not read the signs Of the times 10 yo,,
not Sc that the clouds on the social firraauenf
are tnickening; Are you not, for instance aware
~ etroi Of industry and of the means on
" fewer hands; that the monopoiists, 1 = thss
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JljsT BEFORE THE TRAGEDY.

JUST BEFORE THE TRAGEDY.
Tho evolution of the tragedy was curiously
regular
First, as has been shown, these men taught
radical Social Sm. Next. they organized dis
coutcutod worldngmen To act more efficiently
in strikes The usual trouble arose: "scahs'
took the place of striking workmen, they
werc attacked by the strikers, the police were
called ON for protection and the inevitable
question was preseatcd-shall we fl ,hti The
Anarchists, in speech and in The Arbeiter
Xeitung, vchementlv urged destructive
measures They exhorted the strikers to
fight both the "scahs" and the police, gave
minute instructions how to Use nitro-glycerine
and manufacture bombs, and had EARNED
sections of their supporters who drilled
nightly and were instructed in the use Of
bombs
At length it was boldly announced that the
Anarchists had 800 armed and well drilled
revoluiioniSts in Chicago, and it was proved
that they really had 5000 at this time. as was
sworn to during the trial The Arbeiter Zei-
Jung and The Alarm published many such
sentiments aS these:
paggers and reviewers are easily to be- gotten;
hand erenades cheaply to Ike produced.
VIII the workingmen supply themselves with
weapons. dynamite and pyuSsic acid,
The vorLinSmeu Ought to take aim at every
member of the militia
And while the writers acted with what
they probably considered caution, the speak
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tons, carried out their plan OF a general
strike 1or ali e lit hour day. The strike was
well managed and partially successful. ON
May 3 Angus. Spies delivered fierce philip
pic against The non-union men s-4l employed
at the Mccormick works, and there was an
encounter between the seals and police on
one side ana the strikers on the other. A
short and terrible fight occurred; several
men werr killed and many more wounded in
various degrees From the battle ground
August Spies hurried 10 the once OF The
Arbeiter Zeitung wrote and had printed and
distributed the noted revenge circular.
On May there was riotins; nearly all day
on Blue Island avenue, near the Mccormick
wor.c, The First re .Elent WIS ordered 70
be il readiness at its ar.nory and the entire
police force was kept in instant readiness.
The Arbeiter Zeitung OF that morning urged
destructive action, and the Anarchists were
busy among the strikers all day. Thousands
OF copies Of the following notice were scat
tered through the cityi
ATrgSTips, woRKISGHES
Great mass meeting tonight Gt 80 O'Clock at
the TI2ynarkct Randolph street, between Des-
PLANES and fIlistrad Good speakers will be
present . deuounce the latest atrociOui acts Of
the pollcc-ths shooting Of our fellow wOrkmep
yesterday afternoon. WoFkingmen, arm your.
selves and appear in full force
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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The agitation growing out of the attempt
to enfaE'ce the eight hour law led directly to
the tragedy. As early as NAV, 1881, the or
satiiSsesi workingrncn Of Chicago gave notice
thai en- tho LIST Of May, lSSSi. they would in
sist upon the general ohSerNa nce of the law
IL l. no; necessary to detail the numerous
strikes and occasional riots of the following,
two years in various sections Of tho country
suffice II, that each one WAS eagerly seiscd
upoa by the anarchists as fresh proof that
capital was crushing labor.
On April IS. 1875, the new beard of trade
building was formally opened; there WIS a
somewhat riosoas popular demonstration
against it, and Fielden and Parsons addresssi
the asSsstnhlage IN language more intlamr,a-
tory than ever before. In July, 1885, there
was s general strike of street car EMPLOYEES
one riot was excited which was oulv
Suppressed by the police with grear o,u,,1,,.,
In February, Isl, the work...len at tia Ne
Cormiek factory struck. and Pinkerton,s
men were employed to defend the property.
and there Was a riot On May l. 1886 the
sorxlnsinea Of Chicago, with few exceo-
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The Chicago groups were known as the
North Side the Northwest Side the Ameri
can the Karl Marx, the Freiheit, the South
west Side and Jefferson No. / Schwab,
N,,bo and Lingg belonged to the North Side
group" Engel and Fischer to the Northwest
SIDE, and Spies, Parsons and Fieldcn to the
American There was also an armed social
sti organization called the Lehr und Wehr-
Ncrtlu, whose members seem 10 have also
been members Of the International groups"
but to have been Of higher rank.
Tho branch Of the International Working
men. association which existed in Chicago
during ~ and up to May 4, 1856 was a com
pact, " Il disciplined organization. At tie
hcad of 1t was u general or central co.lmit-
tee Ncyt to it came the Lehr und Weir
Ncr'm. Then came the armed sections OF
the various "gronps,' and then came the I'M
armcl members Of the groups"
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q 4tcaliber revolver and a peculiar knife
made from Elt FL. All were released af
ter the inquest except Sehwab, Fischer and
August Spies. Tie condemned and some
others were held without hail. May Il, the
grand jury met and listened TO a charge by
the late Judge I-ogers; on the 2.th they
handed in indictments against the men since
condemned and Anton Hirschburger and
John APPEL besides, On making up his case
the Tro5ecltor nollied the indictments
against the last two, the evidence being in
sufficient On the 2lst Of June the trial be-
gan before Judge Gary. Three weeks and
three Gsys were Consumed in making up
jury; l,44sl talesclel were examined, both
sides exhaustins every power the law gave
them. The naInci Of the jury were as fol
lows:
Frank s. Osblrne, foreman; James Fl. Cole,
Scott G Randall. Theodore Z. Decker. Charles B.
Todd. Andr--w Hamilton, Charles A Ludwig,
James II DrCyt IA, Alauson II. Eced. John B.
Grenier, G,-o.s W. Adams, Howard T Sanford.
The trial lasted from July i 10 Aug. 20 in
elusive and attracted the attention Of the
civilized world-scatcely more by the impor-
lance of the issues than by the abiltianpf
the counsel. On behalf Of the state appeared
States Attorney julius 5. GriInell, assisted
By Messrs Frank Walker, Edmund Furth-
man and George c, Inghc;n; for the accused,
Capt - r Black, Moses Salonon, W. A.
Foster and Sigmund Zeisler. The jury
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Observation-Disclosures

On the day after the tragedy the police de-
scended on every known Anarchist resort in
lineage and arrested every suspected r,an
before morning many had been dragged from
Their beds. Every one in The Arbeiter
Ieitung office was arrested: August Spies.
ediaor IN chief; Christ Spies, his brother;
Michael Schwab, associate editor; Mrs Ely
aoeth Hay Holmes, editorial contributor.
eighteen printers, two reporters and two
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reached when 1913, 992 Europeans landed in
the United States. immigration from Eng
land had declined and that from Ireland
fallen 10 a minimum; but from southern
Germany there was an immense increase,
while eastern Europe sent Poles, Bohemians,
Russians, Hungarians and their congeners by
tens Of thousands In many Of these people
hatred Of government had become n heredl
tary sentiment. Chicago became leadquar-
ters for the Discontinued, and The Arbclter
Zeitung Workers Journal their organ Then
spruhg up in that city the International
Workingmens association The platform or
declaration Of principles of this organization,
as was testified to at the trial, urged that
"thc present system under which property is
owned by individuals should be destroyed,
and that all capital which has been produced
by labor should be transformed into com
mon property" The association was divi-
ded into groups" Of which there were
eighty in the United States in March, 1855,
located principally i'll the cities OF industry